Monthly Archives: May 2012
Seed
I wrote this some time in the 1970s. The conversation with the Honda garage actually happened; some times life hands you the best lines. * * * It was the bills I think. First there was the bill from the power company, and then the telephone company, and then one for auto insurance. I rarely […]
Secret Pals
I don’t remember what prompted me, but in 2008 I read Fugitive Days by Bill Ayers. Perhaps I saw Hunter S. Thompson’s comment that this was “a very good book about a terrifying time in America.” I ordered a copy through Abebooks. The jacket told me that Ayers was the author of A Kind and […]
Scars
July 23, 2007 I have the makings of a new scar, and I’m pretty excited about it. Boys love scars. Pirates have them. Heidelberg dualists have them. Mostly my knees have them. There’s the 1950’s scooter accident on a rough sidewalk in front of the house next-door, the piece of broken glass on the athletic […]
Sauce for Pasta
Shop on Friday afternoon or evening. Then start cooking around 9 a.m. on Saturday morning, after you’ve had a good walk, a shower and a healthy breakfast. If you’ve put off shopping, go shopping pronto and get home and cooking by 10 a.m. If you’re any later than that, forget about it and try again […]
Sailing
August 21, 2001 I saw something this afternoon that simply amazed me. I was walking home from work on a picture perfect day, warm sun, cool breeze, clear air, deep blue sky with a few high white clouds, and as I got to Thayer Park on the water, a young woman was bringing a sail […]
Back in the Saddle
A friend whose son is thinking about going to Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimmaron, New Mexico, asked me about my experience there. Of course, I immediately recalled stories like this one: One of our activities was a trail ride on “line ponies,” docile beasts trained to follow the horse in front of them, and accustomed […]
My Russian Bride
so easy with the Internet no long letters, no long wait and there you were at the airport more beautiful than I could imagine I felt young again I smiled at the way you said, “Minsk” and you laughed when I said, “Moskva” we taught each other so quick you were to learn not just […]
Rick Geary
In an earlier incarnation, Faithful Readers needed some art. And, in kind of a dream come true, I found that Rick Geary would be willing to do it. Geary began working in comics in 1977 and for many years contributed to the “Funny Pages” of National Lampoon. His comic stories appeared in Heavy Metal, Dark […]
Revere Your Beer
I have long been fascinated by the meaning of beer; this is a piece written in that direction. * * * Beer begins in the grave. The seed from which barley springs is not meant for us, not for our nutrition or pleasure. Rather, the starch in the seed is meant to feed the seed’s […]
Red Beers
This article appeared in the Syracuse New Times, February 15-22, 1995. * * * Red blooded, red phone, red lips, red hot. Heat! Alarm! Passion! Beer! Beer? Yes, prodded by flat sales of traditional brands and envious of the Coors Brewing Company’s success with Killian’s Irish Red, the followers in the brewing industry are saddling […]
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